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Boston

Capital city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Founded on September 17, 1630 by Puritan colonists from England.[1] The area was originally called Tremountaine by its earliest settlers, for the three hills on the Shawmut Peninsula. The town was later renamed after Boston (abbreviated from “St. Botolph's Town”), Lincolnshire, England, from where many of the town’s prominent colonists had emigrated.[2]

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ABOVE: View of Boston, July 4, 1870[3]

War of the Silver Kings: In 1870, young Edie Stoller left her home in Echo Springs, Utah Territory, for Boston. When saying good-bye to Bret Maverick, she gave him the address of where she would be staying, hoping he would visit her some day.[4]

Stage West: In 1871,[5] Sam Harris left his wife Linda and son Timmy in Boston to go prospecting for gold in the West. Four years later, Linda received a letter from Sam in Twin Bluffs, Nebraska with a map to gold mine he had struck in the Black Hills. She left Timmy in Boston with relatives to travel to Nebraska to meet Sam. Upon reaching the Packsaddle Station in Nebraska, she learned Sam had been killed by Wes Fallon. Bret Maverick managed to sell a map of the Harris Mine to Mart Fallon for $15,000. Once the Fallons were arrested and taken to jail in Twin Bluffs, Bret gave the money to Linda for Timmy, as Harris had wanted. Linda returned to Boston with the money, where she and Timmy were able to start a new life without her husband.[6]

Hostage: In April of 1879,[4] Boston was the destination of Henri Devereaux's ship Delaford out of New Orleans.[7]

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